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“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow” The birth of absurdism

Very interesting. I like Mr Bragg. I used to think he was up himself but, he’s just confident I think.

Eavesdropping on a conversation about a conversational poem, meta in the best of ways. It started running as the soundtrack for cleaning up my kitchen, inevitably the kitchen remains squalid as the background to a task broke ranks and became a most compelling guest.

Muito bonito! Leitura grave e fluida, verdadeira aula de declamação. Sentido que ultrapassa a barreira da língua.

It's REALLY difficult to find a version I'm happy with. It's best that I keep trying on my own I guess. Find it myself.

Beautiful!

Bravo Stephen Frye!

What a beautiful conversation. McKellen is such a great soul and I was moved to tears more than once. I never saw Lear as a redemptive play before this. On the theology of Lear to which Sir Ian makes reference from time to time I would argue that it is a necessary spiritual task to reject idols. Lear's loss of faith in the gods that have been the undergirding of his life until now is absolutely essential to the discovery of his humanity. Sir Ian speaks of everything being OK in the end. There is meaning within the tragic events. There is love.

A very good interview: Two books I started, BUT put aside after some thirty pages each, were "A burnt out case" [Graham Greene] and "Nausea" [Sartre]. I saw a bit too much in them of my own personality I was uncomfortable with. Perhaps I'll return to them. Take care of yourself Melvyn.

Already with thee! tender is the night,

She's perfect

I went to the Nelson Thomlinson School Wigton at the same time as Melvin. X

Deedumdeedumdeedum...

Take A Moment Melvin is a genius 🎉 Thank you for your work. Stay Safe and Stay Free 2:06 🌐 😂

I am always a little surprised when lovers of imaginative literature do not reference Colin Falck’s Myth, Truth and Literature, which philosophically supports language’s effort to “reach beyond” normally used concepts, which language embodies: the transcendent/revelatory uses of language.

King Lear, a "Play about Retirement," just one of many brilliant insights from Sir Ian McKellen. Thank you for this gem of an interview. Truly fascinating!

This interview is so wonderful. I can listen Sir Ian talk all day❤

Emma Gifford was a solicitor's daughter and was the sister-in-law of the Cornish vicar, Rev. Caddell Holder not the daughter.

And now they are trying to restrict what we read. The communist chickens have finally come home to roost.

Mr Fry, thank you for having the courage to frankly express your issues with bipolar disorder & also drug & alcohol issues & a means of your own to deal with such things

She keeps saying PDSD 🤦‍♀

Perhaps, rather, to turn your back on your demons when you need the embrace of your angels. The balance is to recognize the need for both.

Depression to me heightens one's feelings, and makes me understand life differently to most.

Thank you for this amazing content. Am now obsessed with Ben Okri 🙌 genius

This is beautiful, and ASU is so lucky to have Prof. Bate.

just came here to say - good hair on the man here.

Melvyn Bragg ...the guy who could send a corpse to sleep 😴

That's what poetry is for isn't it? Hugs

Wow. Thank You for this and bless you, Stephen - you are a beautiful man who’s wit and expression of language covers a very wide spectrum of the human experience. Your honesty is deeply inspiring.

Those last few moments...as with Frank Skinner recently...such poweful emotion

A desperate request to Stephen Fry. It may sound like teaching your grandma how to suck eggs because he is a masterly actor, voice-over, and a factotum who can act and enact the most challenging roles. Please don't allow your voice and tone to dial down either in the middle or end of a sentence. Your listeners miss the words. It may be a mannerism or a vocal tic or a consequence of a momentary immersion in deep cogitation, it creates a gap in attentive listening. Since you command an amazing and engaging range of voice and words, it detracts from your impact on the viewers. Record such dips in amplitude and tone, and find out why the words trail off into inaudibility. You are a paragon a multitude of your fans would love to emulate.

Poetry as therapy poetry as form of delectation. Stephen has written an extremely beguiling book on poetry in all its multiple forms.

She uplifts me from the thumbnail alone.

Going into the mechanics of poetry, I, e, iambic pentameters et al, kill poetry stone dead for new people coming into it. Poetry doesn't do discussion, it just does poetry. For example, one doesn't dissect Rimbaud or Rilke, one lives them, one's consciousness is transformed by such sublime, ethereal verse. "I wish to be alone or be with those that know things others don't know". Rilke

"one must either become a work of art, or create a work of art, all else is folly". Oscar Wilde

ART Art is a dart that you aim at someone’s heart and if you reach it vibes will start: joy, sorrow or, maybe just a fart. Then you will feel a little bit smart and think: well, this is art!

Take heart, darling Stephen. Indeed, when we are down, we are down, but we always come up, up, up again: that's the beauty of being volatile.

Great video!

I admire Melvyn for admitting that he suffered from depression and in do so can help others.

She wants the Bragg.

Why do the BBC still employ him when he supports fox hunting. Pure evil.

Just seeing it pop up on RUclips instantly lifted my depression before I have even viewed it Stephen is such a chap one of the true bastions of our great country. Now I'm off to phone spike 😉

Fry writes good books: listen to one

B"H Xmas is past.We thought, we sought ,we planned, we wished and we BOUGHT but still we didn't get what we wanted. We now HOPE for new Year's Eve and hope for the New Year to find a "better life" We all know what we need but who knows what we are needed for We are ALL Equal in that we have the same soul We are all different in tht no one shares the same kind of human body we have All Created beings NEED hope or we can't go on The Grass is greener On The Other Side, its what we HOPE will give us what we want When we get to the other Side we find that we didn't get all that we wanted Once KINGS and Emperoros ruled us as slaves NOW we are all slaves to our desires, we have hope that the next thing we are enslaved to buy and purchase will make us "happy" The new World Order is again King over us, were we ever free of kings? We all know what we NEED but do we know what we are NEEDED for? IF you ask yourself WHAT you are needed for as an Eternal Soul enclothed in a Human Physical Body, you will find the answer. As souls we are all one.

B"H Xmas is past.We thought, we sought ,we planned, we wished and we BOUGHT but still we didn't get what we wanted. We now HOPE for new Year's Eve and hope for the New Year to find a "better life" We all know what we need but who knows what we are needed for We are ALL Equal in that we have the same soul We are all different in tht no one shares the same kind of human body we have All Created beings NEED hope or we can't go on The Grass is greener On The Other Side, its what we HOPE will give us what we want When we get to the other Side we find that we didn't get all that we wanted Once KINGS and Emperoros ruled us as slaves NOW we are all slaves to our desires, we have hope that the next thing we are enslaved to buy and purchase will make us "happy" The new World Order is again King over us, were we ever free of kings? We all know what we NEED but do we know what we are NEEDED for? IF you ask yourself WHAT you are needed for as an Eternal Soul enclothed in a Human Physical Body, you will find the answer. As souls we are all one.

This is a beautiful show. I love this so much <3

This man is evil.

Brilliance ... reminding us poetry is not an ivory tower stronghold but a human every day accessible experience ... it is freedom, liberation and in the dirt defining and divining of connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world. Stephen Fry's humane disposition is down home kind, strengthening and liberating.. a true friend to many.

Lovely kind humane being .. so compassionate to share one's plight.. deeply intelligent. Stephen Fry is epitome genious.

Naaah! The Eagle was best. And Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode".